New Codec Pack for video section

[serrokko]

Hello to all...

I see that in the video section, there is a lot of different video format and a couple of user ask how come they cannot see the videos they are downloading. Here is the answer to solve almost any video problems.

This is a superb pack of Codec that looks to be real safe, stable and it works great.

It's called the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack 1.16 (20.0 Mb) and you can find it **broken link removed**

There is an alternative codec for QuickTime and RealMedia so you don't have to install these media player as they will play in a basic media player without any adds and all other stuff that loads in your lauch bar.

If you have QuickTime and RealMedia, you can uninstall these and you will get a clean setup to play these media after installing the codec pack.

You'll get DVD decoder, encoding / decoding latest DivX, XdiV, MPEG1/2, OGG Vorbis and a big bunch of other codecs...

This is one of the best pack of codec I have ever found. Woks like a charm on my system.

 

[Kaiser]

I would advise against these types of packs. They are well known to cause "codec hell" in which you may be forced to uninstall and run a codec cleaner to link the proper media tags to the proper codec. (There are free cleaners out there if anyone is already experiencing this, including one straight from DivX) To keep your media players stable only install the codecs you need and make sure they are downloaded from the original vender. If you are not sure which codec a video file uses download Codec Viewer 1.5 (or newer) which is a free utility that tells you which ones you will need to play the file in question. For the most part DivX and XviD play each other fairly well unless you get one encoded years ago. As far as audio codecs, of course there is DivX audio, but the other to that are most used are AC3 and DTS. You can also download them separately. Note: If you have a file that will not play even video, yet you are sure the video codec installed will render the file, make sure one of these audio codecs are not needed. I have seen these particular codecs stop video also if they are needed to play the file.

Added note, there is a freeware player called VLC Media Player that is open source, ultra stable and I have not found a movie that it cannot render yet. It also supports client server unicast so if you want to have the same movies playing around your house on different computers or media center, it will play them with the same timing. As easy as this sounds it is not very perfected or even supported over a PC via normal media players. For this to work you must make sure your router/switch supports multicast/unicast.

You can get it here:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Knowing OTH, he probably loves this one.